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Thanks Steve - feel free to delete the thread if you are able to...no point in others jumping in on something that may be nothing.

Sorry folks - I couldn't see how to delete this thread. Even though I have a purchase confirmation...it appears my back has delayed the transaction (still deducting the amount of course!). I'll have to be patient...

And sure enough if I log onto my account in Affinity...there is no saved V2 universal licence there..

Today I bought the Universal Licence through the Mac App store as an in app purchase (using Publisher V2 Trial). Apple have confirmed the purchase, however after following guidelines (link in activation screen). I get the message that I don't have a V2 licence. Here are the screen shots...what do I do next?

Affinity Designer 1.10.19 - so I have created a large artboard then locked it so it doesn't move around when I'm working. Then I pasted a bunch of svg letter paths from another Affinity Designer document onto it. Trouble is, these are immediately locked onto the artboard and it is not possible to select them, either individually or altogether. They effectively inherit the artboards lockedness. But...if I select an individual layer, in the layers pane, it becomes selected and can be moved about...so it isn't locked. It's just not selectable with the marquee tool. Edit all layers is on. Can anyone shed any light on this weirdness...what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance...

A late reply to this thread...and perhaps there is a better answer for the latest versions of AD. I had the same concerns when compiling (drag/drop) multiple svg letter forms into AD for editing and for use with glowforge. Why does it matter? Because when all svgs are on a single layer you can assign attributes (stroke and colour) to multiple objects at the same time and remove the embeddedness of dragged and dropped elements. I still cannot find a direct way to merge all layers while retaining SVG properties. But there is a work around I use...export to pdf (with rasterising) and then opening the pdf again in AD...all the paths are then on one layer.

Yes, please...I have 45 pages of 4 or 5 text frames to combine...

Many thanks all for the inputs and thoughts. I think we are all essentially saying the same thing really - it would be great if a right click on a Master Page item on an actual page allowed you to edit detached. It seems a bit clunky as is but still a useful feature. It would also be very helpful if alert dialogues were generated to let you know why you can't edit something. For example, I recently copied an item from a master page element on a page, and pasted it into a newly created textbox off-document (for temporary storage) - immediately it became ineditable - I couldn't select, copy or delete it (sometimes this happens and sometimes it doesn't...I can't fathom why!). Anyway, if as I click on it there was a message to say what its current state of ineditability was and why...it would be helpful (I have to remember or guess that editing detached might work, and guess which of my master pages it might be attached to!!)

Carl - brilliant! Thanks so much. I was trying to use edit detached on the text layer. That's an amazing assist.

Many thanks for the replies Carl and first defence Unfortunately edit detached is not available in the layers menu (I tried this as I have had to use this feature a few times when the moving items on a master page did not result in a move on an actual page!) Because what I am working on is a compilation of short poems using a variety of fonts , I'm simply going to create free text frames where I need to stroke Gabriola for example.

Wonderful - thanks a million!

I've been struggling for days on a strange little problem. I have used the stroke panel before to create a faux bold for a single family font (Gabriola). Suddenly I found it impossible to do this in a new document and have spent ages trying everything. I went back to my earlier work and found that the stroked text was still stroked and editable. The only difference is that the first document, is text in a text box drawn on the page in question; in the new document it is text placed in a master page text frame . It seems text flowed into text boxes created by a master page cannot be stroked. Surely I should be able to stroke the text in either case?!

I don't use iCloud drive, these options mentioned above don't help much, and don't really solve my issue. The saved file was made on my iPad and is saved on my iPad; I just can't open it any more on my iPad...it seems absurd that I can't now open it on my iPad without first uploading it to a cloud server and downloading it again...am I wrong?

This is quite a problem - I have only just bought Designer for Ipad but have used the desktop for a while. Having made a new file to play around with the interface and apple pencil, I saved the file - just as anyone would expect to. However, what this does is delete the file from the application and save it into the Files app from where it can no longer be accessed by Designer. In Files, it has the Designer file icon and the correct file extension...however it cannot be opened. It is just lost there in a kind of file purgatory or limbo. Airdrop does not work either, because I tried airdropping the file to my mac and back again...nothing doing

Hi Seneca, This really isn't a destructive v nondestructive discussion. One is not superior to the other. Both clearly have their uses, advantages and disadvantages depending on context and task. No one wants Affinity to remove the option for non-destructive cropping. All most of us here are advocating is that Affinity consider implementing an additional option for quick and dirty destructive cropping for those who need it - it would make the programme so much more efficient for those who would use it to reduce large numbers of files quickly as outlined in my first post.